alpine_saint

This thread sums up why I have been banging on about our half-arsed transfer activity this summer so much.

I agree, the personal stuff is unecessary.

Dickson, Puncheon, Lallana, Richardson. If Morgan or Rickie get injured, we are in doo-doo.

Fair comment, but we are now 2 weeks away from the first match and things should be taking shape faster now than they are.

Christina Hendricks from Mad Men.

We have a first XI that if in form, fit and available for the whole season, will walk this league.

Hey, dont let little facts like that get in the way of a good dig... The fact that MLG is now going on about this for the 5th time in 24hrs must suggest I dont get a lot wrong.

Still not bothering, I note.... You stubbornly refuse to consider the points others make and then have the sheer cheek to accuse them of the same. Not really much point in carrying on then, is there ? Go on, I let you have the last word. Make up something suitably and characteristically childish.

Nope, you didnt bother, did you ?

Yep, I just want to slag Saints off.... Yep, I place more credence in what is going on than what a bunch of bookies say. Pathetic.

Nope, I've already elaborated on the reason why I think fans and club are being complacent about this season, on this thread earlier have a go at trying to find it and actually considering it with an open mind.

And your agenda doesnt fit with acknowledging the perfectly valid arguments I've made.

He really is a loathsome tw*t. He complained over the radio today about Massa overtaking him and got the team management to issue a cryptic team order to Massa. Then post-race sermonised about performing for Ferrari to get the right team result. After his foot-stamping when he was partnered by Hamilton, he really does seem to be chasing Schumacher's crown of biggest tw*t in F1.

Yep. Spot on.

Another myth - I posted feedback on EVERY game last season.

That we've woken up and started to play in the manner in which we need to - a promising sign. Sorry, I am still scarred by watching England v Japan in Graz and thinking it was nothing to worry about because the team would rise to the occasion when the real WC started....

That's the third time you posted that - I really dont see the relevance of it or the reason you keep posting it. You lot are talking nailed on certainities, I am pointing out that nothing is certain but that a few things could have been done differently to ensure a higher probability of success.

There is a middle scneario, of course, that we suffer injury problems often enough that we cannot build up momentum and get to the playoffs and lose, or get mid-table mediocrity. Why does it have to be black or white ? Why do people forget all the things that must really click together for a team to have sufficient form for automatic promotion ?

No I havent - my last post lays out the reasons very clearly - FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO READ IT.

How can you say this ? You have no idea how the team will gel, how the new signings will perform, if the likes of Morgan and Rickie will stay fit. Maybe last season overall with the form we had will turn out to be the best window of opportunity for some time to come. Disappointing that the average Saints fan refuses to see the uncertainty in all this and is being totally complaicent about this season. EDIT: I wonder if that is the reason for some of the aggression towards me - pointing out things no-one wants to hear...

As stupidly disingenuous as usual, NickG. The squad in post #37 only played a few games in that form, and you know it. Compare the squad from the last games of the last season with now and the first 16 is weaker. You prove time and again that any sensible discussion with you is as big a waste of time as any discussion with me is accused of being. However, you strike a better chord with the happy-clappy contingent, of course.

hehehehe. Pinch me...

Oh dear, toys out of the pram time...

Worked well for England, didnt it ?